Capital Advice and Insights from Merit Harbor

Merit Harbor Capital, a Seattle-Tacoma based investment bank, was recently awarded the prestigious Acquisition International’s award for Leading M&A Adviser of the Year – USA. “A healthy U.S. economy has resulted in a robust market for business owners looking to sell,” said Craig Dickens, Co-Founder & CEO of Merit Harbor. “We are very grateful to […]

Blockchain’s Disrupting Role in Investment Banking Blockchain technology makes it feasible to track the exchange of virtually anything (houses, money, car titles, stocks) without the necessity of relying on one single entity (i.e. a bank) to act as an intermediary. Instead of relying on a middleman, blockchains are databases (i.e. super-powered spreadsheets) that run across […]

Why EBITDA and Cash Flow Are Not Synonymous EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Depreciation, and Amortization) is a standard tool in assessing a company’s valuation, ever since it started to be used as an important component of an LBO strategy in order to determine how much debt a company can handle. Moreover, there are certain figures […]

Proactive Acquisitions: Facilitating Deals with Quality, Passive Owners By proactively discovering passive sellers at reasonable valuations – while working well with more traditional sources – acquisition strategies can facilitate mid-market businesses elevate status to a more dominant role in the industry. When searching to acquire new companies, business owners can approach listed companies or – […]